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When President Trump took office with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats hoping to slow or block the GOP’s aggressive rollback of rules and regulations relied on Democratic attorneys general to file a seemingly endless string of lawsuits. Today, once-sleepy contests to become...

Cody Wilson, the man behind the fight for guns made on 3-D printers, says his company has begun offering firearms blueprints for sale, reports the Austin American-Statesman. Wilson said a federal judge’s recent order to block access to the files applied only to free downloads...

Next Chapter is a new partnership the chat start-up Slack has entered into with The Last Mile, a technology training program for incarcerated people, and $800,000 from the Kellogg Foundation, reports The Atlantic. Next Chapter will train and place three “returning citizens” inside Slack as...

“Technology is definitely going to be a steppingstone in keeping myself stable,” says Jennifer Fleming, one of eight women in a pilot program at the Indiana Women’s Prison that officials plan to roll out to other prisons in the state, the Wall Street Journal reports....

In 2016, more than 250,000 people worldwide died as a result of firearms, and half of all of those deaths came from six nations, including the U.S., PBS News Hour reports. The new numbers, from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics, offer several...

The killings of young, often unarmed black men by white police officers have been heatedly discussed in recent years. One difficulty in understanding these killings — and thus figuring out how to prevent them is a lack of data. Until August 2016, police departments did...